My name is Maximilian Dörnbach. I'm a competitive athlete from Schwerin and the Olympic Games 2028 are the goal. What that means in practice: early-morning training before sunrise, competitions across Europe, a suitcase that's open more often than closed. And every morning, somewhere, an espresso — because without it, nothing gets going.
Sport has taken me to places I'd never have seen otherwise. One in particular shaped me: Australia. Cafés there sometimes open at half past six — and yet the mood inside is completely different from what I knew. No rush. People stand at the bar, talk to the barista, simply arrive. The café there isn't the place where the day is quickly used up — it's the one where it begins. With conversations. With taste. With time.
That mix of early hours and ease has never let me go. That's exactly what Dörnbacher is meant to be — even where there's a wedding, a company party or a city festival going on around it. A moment where you arrive. A cup that doesn't get drunk on the side. Conversations that happen because two people take a brief moment for each other.
Out of that experience grew curiosity. Out of curiosity, knowledge. Out of knowledge, equipment — a mobile stand of oak and steel. And out of the stand: Dörnbacher.
Deliberately kept small until my sporting career reaches its peak. Not despite that — precisely because of it. Both deserve full care: training on the track and the espresso at the bar.